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Feb 14th, 2024, 22:09 | #1 |
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V60 front screen wipers
Will appreciate someone pointing where to purchase reasonably priced.
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Feb 14th, 2024, 22:16 | #2 |
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your volvo dealer is the only place you will get good quality blades , you will probably have to change cheaper ones 2 or 3 times as often. That's in my 47 years of volvo experience anyway...
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Feb 15th, 2024, 15:55 | #3 |
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I'm not sure what brand Volvo supply, but I've been happy with Bosch wipers from Auto Bulbs Direct....
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Feb 15th, 2024, 22:33 | #4 |
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can you get 3 winters out of them ?
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Feb 16th, 2024, 12:45 | #5 |
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I've used Bosch blades, they work fine.
I've had Volvo blades and I wasn't impressed with them at all. They only lasted 18 months before they started smearing the windscreen. I always de-ice the windscreen, so it wasn't a case of turning them on over an iced windscreen (which rips them). I always cleaned the wiper rubbers by hand too, which gets dirt/grime off them. They just weren't good quality and rock hard. I won't be buying Volvo wipers again.
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Feb 16th, 2024, 20:49 | #6 |
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I use them acros my fleet....
My 5-series had them replaced in 2021 and has done 48k miles with them since. My partners Skoda lasted 3 years and 32k miles with them...
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Feb 16th, 2024, 20:53 | #7 |
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Volvo don't make the wiper blades anyway. They'll likely be made by Bosch or Valeo, but Volvo put them in Volvo packaging and sell them at twice the price as a "genuine" part.
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you buy Bosch in Halfords and you are lucky if you get one year out of them... Bosch make several grades of quality for different manufactures needs.
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I bought the Bosch wipers from a local parts store (not Halfords) and they've outlasted the Volvo ones already.
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